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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: tech42

Updated:05-21-08

Duration of ownership:1 Months

Strengths: Looks cool

Weaknesses: Uses non-standard technology, only works with PC's using IE. Won't work on anything else.

Overall Evaluation: Avoid this camera. Buy something that uses industry standards and works on browsers other than just IE, and that works on Macs or Linux as well as Windows. Cisco should know better.
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: rstoomanyhobbies

Updated:03-06-08

Duration of ownership:1 Years

Strengths: Reliable, pretty good video streaming quality, does what I want it to

Weaknesses: Very difficult to set up for anyone not technical. With some techie help, I got two going at home and used dyndns port forwarding to avoid paying Linksys $$ for their service.

Overall Evaluation: Love it! Can keep an eye on the home and see and hear the family when I'm away. It it were plug-n-play and if the price would come down I would give it five stars! I don't know of any better product out there for the price.
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4 Star Review

Reviewed by: harpers

Updated:12-10-07

Duration of ownership:20 Days

Strengths: small effective quick to set up

Weaknesses: instruction manual needs more information

Overall Evaluation: My settings were fairly straight forward:set up camera with fixed ip, network - infrastructure - set port forward on router port 1024 to fixed ip, set up ddns with ease then camera worked with wired connection but not wired, swapped router wireless settings to channel 11 and great everything worked.
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by:

Updated:10-30-07

Duration of ownership:1 Days

Strengths: None

Weaknesses: It's like being in the sook in Turkey - they string you along but know nothing and then they can't fix the problem but tell you "stick with me brother" and they can't troubleshoot the most basic issue

Overall Evaluation: Please be careful. Linksys tech support is virtually the worst experience one can have. They know less than you know and they cannot fix the issue. One was so stupid as to tell me to call the retailer
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by: xtcnails

Updated:10-09-07

Duration of ownership:1 Days

Strengths: Wireless!

Weaknesses: Bad Manual!

Overall Evaluation: WVC200 Wireless PTZ Internet Camera with Audio Linksys WVC200 Wireless PTZ Internet Camera with Audio. This Webcam really works! You gotta play with the ports! Took me 2 days to figure it out! I am glad i buy this webcam!
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5 Star Review

Reviewed by:

Updated:09-05-07

Duration of ownership:7 Days

Strengths: Works perfectly as advertised. I was surprised by the good low light capability.

Weaknesses: No Firefox support.

Overall Evaluation: I see from other reviews that some folks had issues with wireless. My guess is they did not read the directions. Set it up with a static IP, not DHCP or dynamic. I don't run LINUX or MAC, so no input there, and since Billy Boy owns the consumer OS market I see no reason for Linksys to bother with those niche users. If you want to run a MAC or Linux you better be very technically competent. MAC is for kiddies at school, and LINUX is for Windows bashing technocrats.
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3 Star Review

Reviewed by: philroemer

Updated:09-03-07

Duration of ownership:2 Months

Strengths: Lots of features for the price.Better light range than previous Linksys cameras.

Weaknesses: WEP supportNo green! Pink instead of green!

Overall Evaluation: I have older devices on my wireless network that only support WEP. This camera works great hardwired, or with anything besides WEP. Running WEP the camera is slow and sometimes unresponsive. The color thing is hard to get use to as well. There is no green! Everything that should be green looks pink. I will wait for some of these problems to be fixed before I buy another one of these cameras.
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2 Star Review

Reviewed by: guidoD

Updated:09-02-07

Duration of ownership:60 Days

Strengths: Excellent user interface

Weaknesses: Image density not constant at all

Overall Evaluation: Image density is not constant for this camera. In the setup it is possible to activate a "motion detection" feature but since the image density does not remain constant, this feature is useless: the camera constantly triggers while no motion at all is occuring. Linksys tells they are working on a solution but nothing has solved the problems.
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by:

Updated:05-06-07

Duration of ownership:3 Months

Strengths: Great business wireless camera system if you're using Windows XP.

Weaknesses: Linksys says that this WVC200 is compatible with Windows Vista Ultimate and that it works using WPA PSK-AES. It does neither.

Overall Evaluation: Cisco Systems needs to beef up quality control on ALL Linksys wireless camera/specialty products. All of their wireless/specialty products do not work as claimed. I would recommend Buffalo Technology Federal Edition wireless cameras. They are pricey but ALL features work as claimed.
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1 Star Review

Reviewed by: keith20mm

Updated:04-27-07

Duration of ownership:6 Months

Strengths: Pan tilt excellent

Weaknesses: SOFTWARE SUCKS

Overall Evaluation: Software only works with IE. This sucks. But here's the sinker.... The camera's DHCP acquisition doesn't provide correct local IP address except under certain conditions, of which I am, as yet, unable to ascertain... for example, DHCP-acquired address is correct with SMC Barricade and ActionTec wireless access points... Using 2Wire 2700 series WAP, the DHCP-assigned address is some bogus, dice-roll determined address, such as 196.168.1.115, which my WAP router CANNOT EVEN ASSIGN... so where is this BOGUS address coming from? Random core trash? When used with ethernet cable, the camera functions correctly... however, the wired feature, for me, is USELESS, as I cannot string cable around for this camera. Once the power is removed, ethernet cable is removed, and power back on, (this is the procedure to switch from the wired, setup mode, to the wireless mode) the DHCP-assigned address is squirrelly, at best. Also, even with the above noted SMC and ActionTec waps, if the camera antenna is screwed to its terminal, the DHCP address is incorrect ALWAYS...where the camera shows the above dice-rolled IP address 192.168.1.115... for both of WAPs that otherwise correctly.. Remove the antenna, and it usually works correctly with the SMC and ActionTec WAPs... never with the 2Wire 2700 modem... and this really pains me, since the 2Wire is a superior product, with its high powered 400mW radio transmitter and significantly higher throughput. So, all in all, the camera, while a nice enough hardware package setup that COULD WORK, probably, if the software worked correctly, I give the product a 1 out of 5, for my purpose, which is a wireless, internet camera with pan and tilt capability...that communicates with the wireless access point that I have on location... Gee, is this asking for too much, a product that works as advertised and works as expected? You pricks at Linksys need your STUPID HEADS collectively slapped for putting out this disfunctional, garbage pile of so-called product, which has caused SO MUCH TIME WASTAGE on the part of SO MANY, hundreds of, good people who just wanted a simple, functional product. But NOOOO, you have to purvey this pile of sh*t. Save your money until someone makes a decent package, which the WVC200 IS NOT. By the way, my understanding is that Linksys/Cisco didn't really build this crap pile... they just foolishly bought the package from someone else, labeled it as their own, and started the hoax. keith20mm, the guy with the 20mm Solothurn AT cannon.